This space contains information about the following releases of the BMC iChange for IMS product:

• 8.2.00
• 8.1.01

The BMC iChange for IMS product is a high-performance, extended function, change accumulation utility. It provides the following capabilities:

• Processes multiple Change Accumulation Groups in parallel with a single pass of all required log data
• Supports a customizable level of parallelism for reading IMS log data sets
• Employs extensive data reduction and encoding to reduce the amount of data that needs to be sorted
• Performs parallel SORT processing with multiple subordinate address spaces for performance and efficiency
• Supports a customizable level of parallelism for change accumulation processing
• Provides for the creation of multiple copies of a change accumulation data set
• Determines and allocates all necessary input data sets dynamically
• Allocates all output data sets dynamically
• Allows user to suppress output change accumulation record compression, thus allowing processor savings to occur at the expense of larger change accumulation files
• Provides pattern data set name support for output change accumulation data sets
• Allows the specification of generic Change Accumulation Groups
• Creates a report that lists all required input data sets in an easy to process format
• Integrates with the BMC Mission Control for IMS product, allowing you to view and print iChange reports from the Mission Control Repository
• Creates special disaster recovery change accumulation data sets
• Creates a load-and-go RECON backup for disaster recovery
• Creates a disaster recovery report listing all data sets required to perform recovery at a disaster recovery site, utilizing an easy-to-process format
• Allows disaster recovery points to be established without quiescing database activity
• Uses MVS multitasking to utilize multi-engine processor effectively
• Uses dataspaces for internal queueing and processing